The sudden appearance of a 260-foot crater in the Yamal peninsula of northern Russia may explain the mysterious disappearances that occur in the Bermuda Triangle, Science Recorder reported.
The crater suddenly appeared in Yamal in the previous year and is being referred to as "the end of the world," according to Yamal's Russian translation, and scientists believe that whatever force that resulted in the creation of the sinkhole could also be the reason for the mysterious of the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the western North Atlantic Ocean known for the number of ships and aircraft that have mysteriously disappeared while traveling or crossing through the area, and scientists are still seeking explanations as to these disappearances.
The team of Russian experts that explored Yamal's crater descended 30 feet down into the sinkhole to explore its interior and discovered a lake frozen over at the bottom, according to The Siberian Times. The frozen surface of lake is about 10.5 meters deep, but looked like it could go even deeper according to the researchers.
Vladimir Pushkarev, director of the Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration and leader of the mission, spoke to the Siberian Times and provided exclusive photos inside the crater.
"We managed to go down into the funnel. All was successful," Pushkarev said. "Now scientists need time to process all the data and only then can they draw conclusions."
The Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration sent Pushkarev and his team to study the Yamal crater, which was the largest of the three recently formed holes in northern Siberia.
"They did radiolocation tests at a depth of 200 meters, took probes of ice, ground, gases and air. Now they all went back to their institutes and labs and will work on the material. The next stage is processing the gathered information," a representative said. "Then we plan to explore the surrounding area, comparing images from space, and even those taken in the 1980s, to understand if there are, or were, some similar objects."
Some scientists believe that the melting of methane ice caused an underground explosion that resulted in the Yamal crater's formation, according to METRO. A similar reaction could be the reason behind the odd weather conditions that occur in the Bermuda Triangle that makes it difficult to cross.
Pushkarev commented that he had heard about the Bermuda Triangle idea, but did not comment on whether or not the formation of the Yamal crater is related to the Bermuda Triangle.
"At the moment we don't have enough information," Pushkarev said. He claimed that scientists still needed to work on the data from the Yamal crater and relate it to the another Siberian craters, before forming other correlations with other events or places.
